Combined clutch and brake



(No Model.)

O. H. ROHDE. COMBINED GLUTGH AND BRAKE. No. 278,601. Patented May 29,1883.

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD H. ROHDE, OF HUMBOLDT PARK, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED CLUTCH AND BRAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent m. 278,601, dated May 29, 1883.

Application filed February 23, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom may concern: 7 end, as shown at u. The lower end of the le- Be it known that I, CONRAD H. ROHDE, a ver G is connected by means of a rod, H, to citizen of the United States, residing at Humthe treadle I. boldt Park, in the county of Cook and State K is a rod extending upward from a point of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved in the lever G in line with the driving-wheel Combined Clutch and Brake for Sewing-Ma- G. This rod passes through the table B, and chines; and I hereby declare the following to has at its upper end a head, t, to which is sebe a full, clear, and exact description of the cured the brake s. same. L is a helical spring surrounding the rod K '10 My invention relates to a device to be atbetween the top of the table and the head t, L .tached tosewing-machinesrun bypower, which and tending to holdthe brake 8 against the shall act alternately as a clutch and brake for wheel. While this arrangement of the spring the driving-wheel of the machine, the device is preferred, it is obvious that it might be being controlled by means of a treadle, the placed in other situations without changing is pressing down of which causes the clutch to its functionas, for example, between the ta- 6- bear against the driving-wheel and release the bio and the lever, or between the standard and brake, and the releasing of which causes the the lever. brake to bear against the wheel, but releases The upper arm of the lever G extends high the clutch. enough to bein line with the spindle 10, and is 20. The object of my invention is to construct there provided with a rawhide face, r. Since such a device with the smallest practicable the spindle turns agaipst this face, it is obvinumber of parts, and to arrange these in the ous that t'hepoint ofcontact should be as small. most practical manner for convenient and efas practicable to avoid friction. I accomplish fective operation. a this, and also provide means for adjusting the 2 The nature of my invention will be clearly length of the spindle, by insertingthe screw q 7 k understood from the following description, refinto the end of the spindle. By turning this erence being had to the accompanying drawscrew its head may be broughtinto such proxiugs, of which. imity with the lever as the circumstances re- Figure l is a side elevation of m y device, quire. Itis stayed and rendered firm by means v 30 partly in section and Fig. 2, adetail view. of the nutp, screwed against the end of the A is the arm of the machine, mounted upon spindle. V thetable B, and carrying the driving-wheel 0, g In order to give facility in adjustingthe leprovided with a friction-washer, w,- and D, ver G and rod K to each other, I provide the the friction-clutch, mounted in a standard, E, lever with a long slot, 0, at about the point 5 also upon the table B, by means ofahorizontal where it-s'hould connect with the rod. The 8. spindle, a, passing through the upper end oflower end of the rod passes through this slot, the standard. This clutch comprises a wheel and is screw-threaded audsecured to the lever having an annularface to bear against the adbya nut, to, above and below. With this conjacent side of thedriving-wheel, and is operstruction and the provision for adjustment of 40 ated byabelt, (indicated bydottedlinesin the the spindle '0 above described no particular drawings,) connectingit with a pulley on the niccty is required in the matter ofpivoting the driving-shaft]? below the table. Any suitable lever at its fulcrum to the standard E. construction may be employed as to the 0011- It is advisable to provide the standard E tact-surfaces of the wheel 0 and clutch l); but with a capability of adjustment higher or low- 45 the one shown answers the purpose satisfactoer, to accommodate it to the height of the marily. chine. For this purpose any suitable adjuse p, G is a bent lever passing vertically down ing device may be employed-as, fore'xample, through the table B, and then horizontally unr that represented in the drawings, where the der the table to a point below the arm A, and standard is shown in two parts, which are slot- 5o fulcrumed to the standard. E'n'ear its lower ted, and are'held together by aset-screw, m, 10o

passing through the slots, as indicated by the dotted lines.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that when it is desired to start the machine it is only necessary to press down the treadl'e I with the foot, This, through the me.- dium ofthe rod H, draws down the lower end of the lever G, and with it the brake-rod K, in apposition to the spring L. At the same time the upper end of the lever is thrown forward against the end of the spindle of the clutch D,

thus forcing the latter against the drivingwheel 0. This condition of things continues so long as the treadle is held down. When, therefore, it is desired to stop the'machine, the treadle is released, when the reaction of the spring L carries the lower end of the lever G up and the upper end away from the spindle, thus releasing the clutch, while at the same time the brake is thrown upward against the driving-Wheel.

u, securing it in place What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' In combination with the arm A and drivingwheel 0 of a sewing-machine, and with the table B, the friction-clutch D, having the spindle '2), provided with a screw, q, and nut 12, standard E, made adjustable as to height, mechanism for revolving the clutch D, bent 1ever Gr,- having its fulcrum near the base of the standard, and provided with the slot 0, brakebar K, provided at its upper end withabrake, s, and threaded toward its lower end, nuts u within the slot 0, spring L, treadle I, and connecting-rod H, substan- 5 tially as described.

CONRAD H. BOHDE.

In presence of- G. C. LINTHICUM, W. S. BATES. 

